BLISSETT, Douglas
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Rank:
Fusilier (later Captain)
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Fusiliers
Service:
Army
Service Number:
6482232 and 326321
Born:
Tuesday, July 2, 1918
Birthplace:
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Died :
Friday, July 30, 2004
Place died or last resided:
Boonah, Queensland
Age:
86
Medals: 1939/45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star, France and Germany Star; Burma Star; Defence Medal; War Medal.
__.__.1939 Police Constable 797 residing Police Section House, 53 Judd Street, Euston.
__.__.1942 volunteered for the commandos.
24.06.1942 posted to the 1st Police Intake, Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry. After training posted No.3 Commando.
29.07.1944 Officer Cadet commissioned Second Lieutenant.
__.02.1947 to Army Reserve List. Later resumed his service in the Metropolitan Police attaining the rank of Detective Sergeant.
13.07.1951 residing Flat No 2, Police Station 4/6 Shepherdess Walk, City Road, London N1.
__.03.1965 residing Canberra, Australia. Later moved to Boonah, Queensland. Member of the Commando Association.
2nd or 3rd cousin to Major Harry Blissett, No.2 Commando and 1 Special Service (Commando) Brigade.
Sources
London Gazette 36731, page 4576.
WW2 Medal Cards Index.
Commando Association newsletter 40 (1965).
His son John Blissett.
Notes
Medal Card of campaign stars follows that of the theatres of war of No.3 Commando until July 1944 when commissioned. He also has the Burma Star and may possibly have accompanied Lt. Col. Peter Young who was posted from No.3 Commando to 3 Cdo.Bde. In the Far East in Oct.1944.
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